AnsonGoodrich was born on 23 May 1792.2 He was the son of SethGoodrich and PollyGrover.1 He married EuniceAndrews on 4 September 1814.2 He died on 5 July 1861 at age 69.2 He resided at Salem, Pennsylvania.2

Transcribed from Case: "born Aug. 5, 1804, in Salem, Penn., while the county was a vast wilderness; facilities for education very limited; a few months each year in the common school for three or four years; under the tutelage of the Rev. Wm. Goodrich, author of Goodrich's Geography, for awhile; taught school three years in Glastonbury, Conn; elsewhere a few years; permanent home in Wayne County, Penn; clerk of the courts of the county for three years; auditor of county accounts six years; county surveyor six years; justice of the peace twenty-five years; still holds the office...no children."4